New Model Requests -- February

[Springheel]

I agree with BT...the back looks too smooth and blurry to be rock. There's no reason NOT to use photoreference for things like that.

[sparhawk]

really? I think it looks like lichen-covered mossy, wet stone, but I'll try a few different versions anyway.

 

It looks pretty clean, considering that it should be a stone on a grave which is outside all the time.

[Fingernail]

Here it is ingame, to give a better context:

 

 

and from a little distance:

 

[BlackThief]

finally uploaded my latest props (sack, woodentable, chair, candlestick, torturechair, window)

 

there's still a problem with the spikes of the chair, but I can't find the problem atm.

 

here's a screenshot of the window

[Magnesius]

Astounding texture work, BlackThief! One can nearly reach out and touch it

[Dram]

That window is sweet as a popstick BT

[SneaksieDave]

8-O

 

Fantastic.

[Springheel]

Excellent work! This brings us up to 62 models with 73 additional skins, and I still have some of Magnesius' to add.

[New Horizon]

Slap three or four additional skins on that window and we'll have some vaarrriety. Great work BT. I really need to get into some modeling soon. This stuff just looks way too artistically fulfilling to pass up. I was a pretty good artist until right after I graduated high school, almost up to Springs calibre. I would like to see if that could be translated to modeling.

[Dram]

Slap three or four additional skins on that window and we'll have some vaarrriety. Great work BT. I really need to get into some modeling soon. This stuff just looks way too artistically fulfilling to pass up. I was a pretty good artist until right after I graduated high school, almost up to Springs calibre. I would like to see if that could be translated to modeling.

 

If you want to add dirt to it and all, then there's no point doing it with more skins. Just put decals on it in the editor - that can look much better. Look at oDD's map as an example - the decals really give it a unique look.

[Springheel]

I think NH is talking about skins, not decals. For example, we'd want an unlit version, which would be very easy to make. And the same model could probably be used as the base for all kinds of different windows.

[New Horizon]

I think NH is talking about skins, not decals. For example, we'd want an unlit version, which would be very easy to make. And the same model could probably be used as the base for all kinds of different windows.

 

Yup, exactly. Different types of stone and glass.

[Dram]

ahhh, ok, now I get it

[Ishtvan]

This is a bit OT, but how do you put decals on things? Is it another actual brush layer or do you blend it into the texture in the material file? I'm just curios because it will relate to how the moss arrow is coded in the future.

[Dram]

You use a patch mesh for it like spar did in the lightgem testmap.

 

you could of course use a model for it though

[sparhawk]

You use a patch mesh for it like spar did in the lightgem testmap.

 

I did??? Where?

[Dram]

the blood? you used a patch or a brush?

 

it doesnt matter, you can use either, but a patch wont give bsp hole thingys

[oDDity]

I just use ordinary brushes. Very thin, with the shader looking like tis

textures/darkmod/city/wall/decal_mid_wall_grime_02

{
DECAL_MACRO
translucent
	 nonsolid
noimpact
noshadows
	qer_editorimage	textures/darkmod/city/wall/decal_mid_wall_grime_02.tga
{
	blend gl_dst_color,gl_zero
	map textures/darkmod/city/wall/decal_mid_wall_grime_02.tga
}

}

[Dram]

Well i don't want to tell you how to do things, but with patches you can twist the decal all over the place, and it only has one side (but if the decal is twosided then it will be seen both side), which means less polys etc etc etc

[Springheel]

A few tips on decals:

 

http://d3collective.hollosite.com/tutorial...loodstains.html

 

http://www.doom3world.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=10259

[Dram]

Thanks, I'll check it out later